Post Date:
Friday, July 1, 2016
CREATE is delighted to welcome Chris Fussell as part of our CREATE Distinguished Speaker Series. He is a Managing Partner and the Chief Growth Officer at McChrystal Group and co-author of the 2015 New York Times bestseller, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World.
Date: August 2, 2016
Location: RGL 101
Time: 12:00 – 2:00pm
For more information please email [email protected] or call 213 740 5514. To RSVP click here.
Biography
Chris Fussell is a Managing Partner and the Chief Growth Officer at McChrystal Group. Chris is an author of the 2015 New York Times bestseller, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Chris was commissioned as a Naval Officer in 1997, and spent the next 15 years on US Navy SEAL Teams, leading SEAL elements in combat zones around the globe. From war-torn Kosovo, to counter-terrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to highly specialized efforts in the troubled areas of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, he served first on SEAL Teams Two and Eight, then in the Naval Special Warfare Development Group. Chris was selected to serve as Aide-de-Camp to then-Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal during his final year commanding the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). There, Chris witnessed first-hand the Special Operations community’s transformation into an agile network. In 2012, he left the military in order to join McChrystal Group. Chris earned a Master of Arts in Irregular Warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School. His thesis work focused on the interagency collaboration and intelligence sharing processes that drove effective, cross-silo collaboration during the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Abstract: Chris Fussell shares his perspective on how to build adaptable organizations with field tested leadership lessons, stressing a uniquely inclusive model that focuses on building teams capable of relentlessly pursuing results. Chris will lead a discussion on the lessons learned from Special Operations’ transformation to adapt to their complex environment, while sharing stories of how the team of teams approach has been successful in businesses. In an engaging presentation, Chris will explore the experiences of General McChrystal and his colleagues within Special Operations, where they faced a smaller and less capable enemy that leveraged the recent shift in the broader operating environment to create a dynamic and networked organization that could pose an outsized threat. Through changes in leadership behaviors and enterprise systems and processes, McChrystal retooled his organization into a networked team of teams that was able to adapt to a constantly changing environment. In this discussion, Fussell will draw out how they revamped how their organization aligned, communicated, and made decisions in order to drive faster execution and shared consciousness at an enterprise level. The parallels between the Special Operations problem set and the challenges facing businesses, governments, and non-profits are striking. Fussell will lead participants through a conversation on possible tools or strategies that could add value as their organizations move to operate more as a team of teams.
Abstract
Chris Fussell shares his perspective on how to build adaptable organizations with field tested leadership lessons, stressing a uniquely inclusive model that focuses on building teams capable of relentlessly pursuing results.Chris will lead a discussion on the lessons learned from Special Operations’ transformation to adapt to their complex environment, while sharing stories of how the team of teams approach has been successful in businesses. In an engaging presentation, Chris will explore the experiences of General McChrystal and his colleagues within Special Operations, where they faced a smaller and less capable enemy that leveraged the recent shift in the broader operating environment to create a dynamic and networked organization that could pose an outsized threat. Through changes in leadership behaviors and enterprise systems and processes, McChrystal retooled his organization into a networked team of teams that was able to adapt to a constantly changing environment.In this discussion, Fussell will draw out how they revamped how their organization aligned, communicated, and made decisions in order to drive faster execution and shared consciousness at an enterprise level. The parallels between the Special Operations problem set and the challenges facing businesses, governments, and non-profits are striking. Fussell will lead participants through a conversation on possible tools or strategies that could add value as their organizations move to operate more as a team of teams.